Brown Sugar

Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are key enzymes involved in glycan biosynthesis. In eukaryotes most of the GTs are localized in the Golgi apparatus or at the plasma membrane.  The Brown Sugar project aimed to identifiy and biochemically characterize brown algal GTs for the very first time, especially the GTs involved in the biosynthesis of cell-wall polysaccharides. A multidisciplinary strategy has been used from gene analyses to protein isolation and activity screening.

Partners:

BAG team from UMR8227 at Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France ; CAZy team at Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, UMR7257 AFMB, Marseille, France ; Protim facility at Irset, Inserm U1085, Rennes, France ; Corint team at Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR6226, Rennes, France